We’re still crunching numbers and analyzing data, but we wanted to go ahead and share a couple new resources for following conversations about the Stop Online Piracy Act, otherwise known as #SOPA and its evil twin #PROTECTIP.
Our friends at The Brick Factory were kind enough to create two instances of their Twitter tracking tool, Slurp140* dedicated to tracking all mentions of the hashtags since December 15th at 1:58 PM EST. Check out the search function and come back tomorrow for a interactive data visulaization. What was your favorite Tweet about #sopa?
#SOPA on Twitter: http://www.slurp140.com/sopa/
Total Tweets Sent: 219,487
Total Number of Accounts: 108,271
Most Popular Client: Tweetdeck
Max Tweets / Hour: 23,567
Average Number of Tweets Sent by Top 10 Users: 203
Also recommended, Congressman Darell Issa released some statistics about the online audience for last weeks SOPA hearings that got written up on Gigaom:
Visits: 197,726
Unique Page Views: 219,712
American Visitors: 138,917
#PROTECTIP on Twitter: http://www.slurp140.com/protectip
On this, we were able to start pulling data starting at 4:56 PM EST on 2/9/11. Expect this one to pick up as the Senate takes up the bill on January 23rd.
Teaser: SOPA Twitter Vizualizaiton
With our excellent coalition partners, we’re currentley working on some pretty amazing data vizulaization. Come back tomorrow and you will get to see a dynamic image in which you can pan, zoom and explore the interconcted web of conversations in full 100,000x pixel glory.
*Before starting here at PK, I worked with the excellent team at The Brick Factory in developing Slurp140.